from The Vanishing of Camille Claudel

Erin M. Bertram

23.07.14



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Note

The following sources were consulted during the writing of this piece, including the letter, quoted verbatim, that opens it:

Auguste Rodin. Rainer Maria Rilke. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2006.
Camille Claudel. Film. Bruno Nuytten. 1988.
Camille Claudel. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Website. 2011.
Camille Claudel: A Life. Odile Ayral-Clause. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002.
Camille Claudel and Rodin: Fateful Encounter. Detroit Institute of Art. Website. 9 Oct 2005-5 Feb 2006.
Camille Claudel at the Musée D’Orsay. Mary Ann Sullivan. Paris, France. Bluffton University. Website. 2007.
“Journal, Day Three: Poetry and Painting.” Kazim Ali. Poetry Foundation. Website. 5 Apr 2006.
“Myths of Creation: Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin.” Anne Higonnet. Significant Others: Creativity & Intimate Partnership. Eds. Chadwick Whitney & Isabelle de
Courtivron. London: Thames & Hudson, 1993.

New Oxford American Dictionary. 2nd ed. Ed. Erin McKean. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Orsay Sculpture. Anne Pingeot. Paris: Éditions Scala, 2003.
Rodin: Eros & Creativity. Eds. Rainer Crone & Siegfried Salzmann. New York: Prestel, 1992.
Rodin: Le Musée et Ses Collections. Jacques Vilain. Paris: Éditions Scala, 1996.
“The Rodin Museum.” The Rodin Museum. Pamphlet. Paris, 2004.
Rodin: Sculptures et Dessins. Gilles Néret. Köln: Taschen, 2003.
“Room 6: Camille Claudel (1864-1943).” The Rodin Museum. Pamphlet. Paris, n.d.

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Erin M. Bertram is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Memento Mori, and her work has appeared in Handsome, So to Speak, Fourteen Hills, and Diagram as a finalist in their 2013 Essay Contest. She’s working on a PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and also interns at Outlinc, an LGBTQ advocacy organization.

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